Poor signal quality?

I have an 802.11g home network. My laptop uses Intel ProSet/Wireless to manage WiFi connections. Sometimes the Intel ProSet/Wireless icon in the task bar shows poor signal quality event though the signal strength indicator in the ProSet/Wireless main screen shows five bars (the maximum). My laptop is located less than three fee from the wireless router. I have tried different channels with no effect.

1) What metric does Intel ProSet/Wireless use to determine signal quality?

2) How can I determine the cause of the intermittent poor signal quality?

Any suggestions or pointers to reference material would be most welcome.

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Posted 5 years ago by Bill in Wireless Networking

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